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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azgulor" data-source="post: 2947410" data-attributes="member: 14291">To each his own, pal.Nothing in my post precludes a middle ground for fans of both games.  Since the obvious appears to need stating:The RQ "fanboys" would be the camp that make purely subjective statements presented as fact regarding their perceived flaws of D20 games, countering with how RQ is a better thematic fit - another subjective position stated as fact.  Furthermore, they frequently attribute D&Disms to the Conan RPG which, although based on the D20 engine, plays significantly differently than D&D and default-D20 games.  This combination places them in the Fanboy camp (in my opinion).The Conan "diehards" (such as myself) like the Conan RPG and do not want to see it's ongoing support sacrificed in favor of a RQ version of the game.  Few of the posts I've seen trash RQ as a system, rather they voice the opinion "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".Since the debate has been ongoing for several days now, with 13 pages (last time I checked) in the Conan forum and multiple pages in the RuneQuest forum, I think I can say that the majority of posts fall into the two camps I've defined.The previously unidentified "middle ground" fans such as yourself seem to like Conan OGL but are open to a RQ version of Conan as well.  Happy now?If the RQ fans were taking your approach or saying why they think RQ were a better fit without tearing down the Conan RPG there would be less vitriol on both sides.  Coming from the "Conan Diehard" camp I must say that listening to subjective D20-bashing in the forum dedicated to the Conan OGL RPG gets old after a while.Azgulor</blockquote>

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